By Eric Novack

From the L.A. Times: Dollars to doughnuts diagnosis

Do the many THCB proponents of government-run, bureaucrat-controlled, global-budget, everybody in- nobody out,  health care advocates want to drive doctors like the author of this article out of medicine?

For more than a year, I haven’t received a single dollar from any insurance company. I work for my patients. A few hundred doctors across the country are working the same way, some in blue-collar towns. Routine
care should be affordable to the middle class, and as more doctors and more patients form relationships that exclude insurance companies, prices will drop. Insurance doesn’t make routine care affordable; it
makes it more expensive by adding a middleman. I know that some patients can afford nothing, so two afternoons a month I volunteer at a clinic that cares for indigent patients, which I could not have done
with the huge patient volume I was seeing a few years ago…

GOTHAMIST: "Mayor Bloomberg may have failed with his plan to ease New York City congestion, but at least he can claim victory when it comes to New Yorkers’ digestion. Judge Says Open Wide for Food Calorie Info.

US NEWS: Election ’08 – Whom the Candidates Listen to on Healthcare.

NEJM: Boston Children’s Mandl and Kohane argue the personal health records systems under development at Google and Microsoft pose challenges. "I’m a great believer in patient autonomy in general, but there is going to have to be some measure of limited paternalism."

Microsoft’s Neupert to NYT: "I can imagine a scenario where we have a third party verify that our
system works the way we assert it does.” 

THE NATION: White House joins San Francisco restaurant association’s appeal of Newsom health plan.

ALBERTA: Provincial authorities weigh "bold steps" to remake health system. "There are simply too many referral stages and patients are simply waiting too long."

CDC: Can social media drive personal health record adoption?

Thinking of Starting a Health 2.0 Firm? It’s All in the Name…

WIRED SCIENCE: 5 New Drugs for Cancer, Blood Clots, Diabetes, and Hepatitis

 Joint Commission to hospitals: Reduce medication errors – pay us to help.

Leavitt to WSJ:  FDA will open China bureau this year.

US, Oz, &  Canadian Govts Give Love, $ to Develop Open-Source
HIT.

Gretzer: McCain plan last best hope to avoid the "Europeanization
of American Healthcare."

Cooking Cancer? Kanzius Develops Nanoparticle+Radio Wave Treatment

Health 2.0 Hits the Bigtime – Will American Well Be the Ebay of Healthcare?

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